Bisikleti

Bisikleti is the accusative form of the Turkish noun bisiklet, meaning bicycle, used when the bicycle is the direct object of a sentence. Turkish marks definiteness and case through suffixes rather than articles, so bisikleti denotes “the bicycle” as a definite direct object. The root word bisiklet is a loanword for bicycle, borrowed into Turkish from European languages, commonly traced to French bicyclette or Italian bicicletta, and it entered Turkish in the late 19th or early 20th century.

To form the accusative, the suffix -i attaches to the stem in a process governed by vowel harmony; in this case the result is bisikleti. It is used when referring to a specific bicycle that both speaker and listener know about. Example: Bisikleti gördüm. I saw the bicycle. Another sentence with an indefinite reference uses bir bisiklet: Bir bisiklet aldım means “I bought a bicycle.”

Turkish also forms related expressions with possessive and other cases: bisikletim means “my bicycle,” bisikletin means “of the bicycle,” and bisikletle means “with the bicycle.” The word bisiklet can appear in various forms as part of noun phrases beyond the accusative. Turkish lacks separate definite or indefinite articles, and definiteness is indicated through suffixes such as -i in possessive and object constructions.